Well, this is a different war story. We just received a new Mainframe from IBM. Big beast big power consumption. My primary task was to be Sysadmin of LPAR/in

Well, this is a different war story. We just received a new Mainframe from IBM. Big beast big power consumption. My primary task was to be Sysadmin of LPAR/instances of Linux inside the new IBM. The new mainframe was unpacked, and the power connectors had to be "modified" to the local standard. You know.. You ask your local contractor to read the manual in English and hope for the best. There was two person on that day on that Data Center. Me and the IBM Tech Representative. Well, I was checking some blade servers looking at the Robotic library, and I see him plugin it 5 meters from me. I just heard a BANG. And for the first time, I saw an electric fire. Like a Dragon spitting green fire. I shout for him stop and move away. He by instinct unplugged it (I grabbed a chair to throw at him if by chance he gets stuck on electricity). It stops. And everything gets pitch black. Lights on He looks at me. I look behind. And there are. 200 servers Down. all Down. It even had broken the APS system. I walk to the extension. Dial 28 to my co-worker and say: "P.... come here. Serious! Get everybody here... Big problem.. BiiiiiiiiiiiiiG." We had to start everything on its right orders (SAN storage, ADs, Servers, SQL) but we knew it. 8 minutes late the electricity company appears the IBM tech had to go to the hospital with cardiac arrest by the stress. The IBM tech guy got lucky and is alive. I got a good recommendation for keeping cool in emergency situations.